That's why I only buy used.   See 5 other replies

I believe that's the actual cost of a coffin and I'm sure the industry is regulated as dead bodies lying around are a health risk. I do see how the industry does portray morticians, but I've dealt with ones in real life who are extremely wonderful. These people make funerals much easier. And I'm not sure how much your last mattress cost you, but mine was $800 for a king sized one. It was not durable enough to go in the ground, but people can have their loved ones remains incinerated and spread somewhere as opposed to cemetery burial. Maybe that's why you think the price is so high because that's where we spent the most for my grandmother, not the actual coffin.   See 5 other replies

Actually, just because your dad wasn't like that doesn't mean it's not grounded in truth.Thousands of families every year are talked into paying prices they can't afford for a funeral, when there's absolutely NO GOOD REASON that they should pay five to ten times the price for a dead person's bed as for a live person's. If your dad was selling five and ten thousand dollar coffins, then, like it or not, he was ripping people off.   See 5 other replies

Hands are thought by many artists to be the most expressive element in drawing people perhaps even more than the face. A lot of artists will study hands ad nauseum to master this expressive power.   See 2 other replies

he draws hands prolly for the same reason many folks do- it's the most available live model.   See 2 other replies